Abram Ioffe
Physicist
Abram Fedorovich Ioffe was a prominent Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize, the Lenin Prize, and the Hero of Socialist Labor. Ioffe was an expert in various areas of solid state physics and electromagnetism. Wikipedia
Born: October 29, 1880, Romny, Ukraine
Died: October 14, 1960 (age 79 years), Saint Petersburg, Russia